Support for spinning-spindles



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SUPPORT POR SPINNING SPINDLES.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEETCE.

GILMAN JAQUITII, OF SAILOR SPRINGS, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE DRAPER @t SONS, OF IIOPEDALE, MASSACHUSETTS..

SUPPORT FOR SPINNING-SPINDLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 410,974, dated September 10, 1889.

Application led November 3, 1887. Serial No. 254,150. (No model.) Patented in England J' une 6, 1883, No. 2,823.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GILMAN JAQUITH,'0f Sailor Springs, county of Clay, and State of Illinois, have invented an Improvement in Supports for Spinning-Spindles, ot which the following description, in connection With the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing` like parts.

This invention has for its object to iinprove that class of spindle-support having independent bearings for the lower end of the spindle below the whirl.

My invention consists, essentially, in the combination of a supporting-tube, an upper bearing therein, a step loose therein, and an elastic support for the step, with a spindle free to move laterally at its lower end, and having a conical point projecting slightly int-o the step, thereby enabling the lower end of the spindle to tip the step, as will be de scribed.

My invention has been patented in England, No. 2,823, dated June G, 188.5.

` Figure l in side elevation represents a spindle-bearing and spindle embodying my invention, the holder or support for the bearing being shown as held in two rails, or two idanges, it maybe, of one rail; Fig. 2, a vertical section of Fig. l; Figu, a sectional elevation of a part of a holder or support with a modified form ol' loose lower bearing or step; and Fig. e is a modification.

`A is the spindle, and B its attached sleevewhirl, bored at d for the passage of oil to the surfaces below.

O is a holder or support, herein shown as closd at its bottom to form an oil-well; D, a fixed or rigid tube-like bearing surrounding the spindle below the whirl; and E is a second independent bearing located at the lower end of the said holder, the end of the spindle entering a seat or pit in the bearing, and F a cushion, (shown in Fig. 2 as a spiral spring surrounding and supporting the san1e,) the said bearing E receiving in it the extremity of the spindle. The bearing F is provided with a head to rest on the top of the cushion or spring, the latter being capable of yielding vertically to a limited extent. The external diameter of the bearing F is enough less than K the internal diameter of the chamber at the lower end of the holder or support as to afford freedom of movement to the lower extremity of the spindle as the latter vibrates when running with an unbalanced load.

The tube-like bearing D has at its upper end a shoulder which tits snugly the interior of the holder or support, and at its lower end a `iiange which also rits the holder snugly. This bearing may be threaded, as shown in Fig. e, so as to be screwed into the holder, it desired. The tube is provided with holes for circulation of oil.

The hole 3 enables oil to be introduced into the holder O.

The holder O, as herein shown, is coniined in position upon a rail II, the lower endvof the holder being steadied by a rail or lange I.

In Fig. e, instead of a cushion made as a spiral spring, I have employed a cushion of cork, (marked e.)

The peculiarity of my step -bearing G is, that while it rests uponfan elastic support, so as to move vertically, it is also Jfree to tip as well as to move laterally, and the lower end of the spindle is conical and enters the step for so short a distance that a lateral movement of the lower end of the spindle need not necessarily move the step laterally with it while standing erect, but may tip the top of the step in one way and its lower end in the opposite way.

I do not claim a rigid bearing and a movable step, nor do I broadly claim a step supported by a spring.

I claim- The suppoitingtube, an upper bearing, and a loose step therein, and an elastic support therefor, combined with a spindle free to move laterally at its lower end and having a conical point projecting slightly into the step,

thereby enabling the lower end of the spin,

dleto tip the step, as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed myname to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GILMAN .IAQUITI-I.

Vitnesses:

JOHN H. ODELL, WM. D. DILLMAN. 

